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Helen E. Hughes, Editor
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Table of contents
Page
INTRODUCTION
by Lynn Thomas Strauss
THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN
IN THE WILDERNESS
by Susan Eckert & JoAnn Cannon
FINDING THE WILD CLOSE TO HOME
by Catherine Blair
AGAINST NATURE: WILDERNESS POEMS
by Judith McCombs
A TREE FARM 'WILDERNESS*
by Suzanne Prescott
RIVER RAFTING ON THE DELORES RIVER
by Pat Watson
REVIEW ESSAY
by Lynn Thomas Strauss
POEMS
by Judy Katz-Levine
POEMS
by Barbara Crooker
REVIEW OF SUSAN GRIFFIN'S
WOMEN AND NATURE
by Joan Lewis
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LETTERS TO THE CREATIVE WOMAN
RESOURCES
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FROM THE EDITOR'S LOOKOUT POINT
by Helen E e Hughes
INDEX TO VOLUMES III AND IV
FUTURE ISSUES
Cover Photo by
Susan Eckert
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UPDATE ON THE U S AMBASSADOR TO
THE NETHERLANDS: MRS. JERI JOSEPH 22
INTRODUCTION
American women are on the move. The
Creative Woman continues to report, chart,
and celebrate this movement toward new
work, new roles, new lives.
This issue follows women out of the
kitchens and office buildings and into
the wilderness.
In our lead article we look at the
wilderness through the eyes of Susan
Eckert and JoAnn Cannon.
Ms Eckert works at University of
Illinois Medical Center in the areas
of wellness promotion and preventive
health education. Love of nature and
the outdoors have always been a part
of her life experience, and she has tra-
velled, camped, and photographed her
way through Europe, Africa and the U.S.
Susan has won top prizes in several
Chicago-area Photography Shows, and her
Wilderness *81 Calendar incorporates some
of her lovely wilderness photographs.
Ms. Cannon has worked internation-
ally as a health consultant, lecturer
and teacher. She began a professional
career in the arts and humanities
through early publication of her poetry
and one-woman oral interpretation
presentations of prose and poetry.
An avid traveler, JoAnn has canoed,
skied, and backpacked throughout the
United States and views trips into the
wilderness as a basis for the expression
)f her artistic talents.
The collaboration between Eckert
md Cannon led to the establishment of
:heir own business of conducting wilder-
less adventures. INWARD BOUND, primar-
ily designed for women over 30, encom-
passes a "wholistic" approach to life,
(ou can read more about their exciting
program in the "Announcements" section
)f this issue.
Also in this issue, Catherine Blair
jives advice on how to enjoy the wilder-
less right outside your back door, while
>uzanne Prescott describes a 'wilderness'
mvironment that has sustained her over
my years of her life
Pat Watson tells the wonderful story
of her first river rafting experience
md the challenges and joys encountered.
In our book review section, Joan
.ewis reviews Women And Nature by Susan
Griffin and Lynn Strauss contributes
a review essay on important books by
Anne LaBastille and China Gal land.
This issue also includes a resource
list of organizations, outfitters, and
groups available to educate, lead and
otherwise support women's move into
the wilderness.
In "From The Editor's Lookout Point",
our editor detajls the significance of
wilderness experiences in her life.
And lastly this issue contains the
index to Volumes III and IV of The
Creative Woman ,,
L.T.S.
Photo by Susan Eckert
THROUGH THE EYES OF
WOMEN IN THE WILDERNESS
BY Susan Eckert and JoAnn Cannon
"Come into the Wilderness and
take no one with you but your
true self..."
An astronomer friend of mine, who had
paddled and portaged in the Boundary
Waters canoe area in Minnesota for 17
consecutive years, never stopped talking
about how marvelous the experience was.
After hearing his stories and seeing his
photographs, I knew I had to go there,
too.
So, during a rare free week in July, my
friend JoAnn and I lashed her 17 foot
canoe to my 10 foot Honda Civic, and
left for a wilderness adventure that would
later change the direction of our lives.
WILDERNESS STOPLIGHT
GO
to the wilderness cumbered,
YIELD
to the loneness you find,
STOP
and you'll see all around you,
the cycles and rhythms of time.
Our outfitter, a free-spirited retired wo-
man who had owned and run her business
for what seemed like decades, took us to
where her canoes were stored. With a
twinkle in her eyes, she lifted a 75 pound
aluminum canoe over her head as she
delightedly watched our gaping mouths.
"That's how you do it," she grinned.
Since we didn't have a set of shoulder
pads on JoAnn's fiberglass canoe, both of
us would have to carry it so the weight
would be evenly distributed. "Too bad
you both have to carry the canoe," she
quipped. "You'll just have to make one
more trip with your packs on each port-
age!" She wouldn't let us forget that
she was still very capable of carrying her
own canoe.
Clear blue skies and crystal lakes; the
Perseid Metero Showers and the Northern
Lights at night. We asked ourselves why
we hadn't come to this wilderness
before.
For two days we paddled and portaged
from lake to lake, and found ourselves
growing more silent with each small lake
we left behind. Idle talk no longer
seemed necessary or appropriate - the
beauty and peace of this wilderness left
us without words.
The Call of the Wild
Does not always scare,
Sometimes it whispers
With exquisite care:
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let
down your long hair."
Soon we began to notice that we had
not seen any other women paddling and
portaging by themselves. Mostly, we
met men who had come out together, in
twos and fours, to fish and camp. Or
there were couples—the woman sat in
the bow of the canoe while the men
guided the canoe from the stern. The
men, of course, always carried the
canoes on the portages, while the
women, of course, carried the paddles
and the light packs.
There was much curiosity aroused when
either groups of men or couples passed
us on a portage. Once we got the
canoe over our heads, all that could be
seen was a green upside-down canoe
with four legs, the legs being unmistak-
ably female. And even during this
unusual mode of encounter and travel,
we would invariably be asked the same
two questions: "Are you two out here
alone?" and "Aren't you afraid?", to
which our replies of "Yes" and "No"
respectively, resoundingly echoed from
inside the upside-down canoe. There
were a few times, however, when having
passed about 16 unmistakably male legs,
we found ourselves responding, "Our men
are fishing on the next lake!"
That was five years ago, and in a span
of only 5 years, it is now very common
to see women and groups of women in
the Boundary Waters, taking a more
active role in being outdoors.
The experience that summer was a very
special one for many reasons, the most
important being that during that wonder-
ful week, the dream of Inward Bound
Adventures was born. Throughout the
week we talked about how exciting it
would be to share such a beautiful envi-
ronment and experience with women who
had always wanted to do something like
this, but for various reasons, had not had
the opportunity, or had not taken advan-
tage of such an opportunity to be in the
outdoors. Both of us had always loved
the outdoors and had many diverse
experiences and skills gained from living
and working outside. I considered my
years in the Peace Corps in West Africa
—living with my husband in a mud house
in a bush village — a two and a half
year survival adventure.
We talked about how important the out-
doors and previous wilderness experiences
had been in shaping our own lives, our
own wellness, our own wholeness and
image of ourselves as women. Our dis-
cussions led us to decide that we would
put together a trip the next summer for
some of our friends who had never before
experienced such an adventure. The trip
would be especially designed for women
over 30 who were beginners-had never
paddled a canoe and had never camped—
so they would feel comfortable learning
these new outdoor skills in an encouraging
and supportive environment.
LONE CANOE
When
the lone canoe is stilled
and the breathing of the wind
stirs across a lake,
and longing for the journey
draws the mind from
all its dreams,
and shadows lose their power
to the coming of the Light,
Then
will Dawn herself arise,
and slowly
wake the Night.
Bringing this dream back to Chicago, we
began to feel that next summer was too
long to wait, so we instead planned
a cross-country ski weekend in Wisconsin
for the winter. Learning to cross-
country ski is one way to begin to enjoy
snow and winter weather. What better
way to be outdoors and experience a
daytime quiet forest than on skis, getting
in touch with the silence, the beauty,
the sounds of the woods?
We also decided that our emphasis on
any outdoor or indoor adventure would
be on wellness and health awareness:
exercising, eating good food, learning to
relax, and discovering new or renewed
confidences and abilities that learning a
new outdoor skill could create. Both of
us worked at a large university medical
center in Chicago and felt that health
professionals very rarely practiced what
they preached about maintaining and
promoting health. A wilderness exper-
ience seemed the ideal arena for promot-
ing wellness, especially for women who
could then take their newly learned
skills and confidences back home and
incorporate them into their daily living
and working situations.
GOURMET SURVIVAL
Bread and cheese fill a
Knapsack with simplicity.
If to carry on the back
Were a requirement of
possession,
There would be many second
Thoughts of ownership.
Ten pounds of wants,
To be gladly traded for
Ten ounces of needs.
A simple meal and a
grateful heart
Provide gourmet survival.
To our delight, the ski weekend was a
wonderful experience— women encouraging
and supporting each other to take risks
and choose their own goals, establish
their own rhythms, their own styles. We
ate simple, good food, relaxed aching
and tired muscles in a nearby sauna and
whirlpool, and decided that this was only
the first of many such adventures for
the future. The excite-
ment, fun, and work was just beginning.
IN THE ARMS OF TREES
How frighteningly beautiful
To spend a night
Only in the arms of trees.
To be alone and witness
The washing of the forest
In the rythmical rhymes of rain.
To hear the rush of a stream
That methodically slows the mind.
To stay alone here -
Perhaps not for long,
As one meal extended is
Too much -
But too long without
Brings hunger.
"Why women in the wilderness?" we are
often asked by men who find our trip
descriptions inviting, or by women who
have never been on an all women's trip.
Because women haven't always had the
same opportunities for enjoying and being
in the wilderness as men have, especially
women in the age group over 30. How
many women do you know who, once a
year, get together for a fishing trip with
their buddies into Canada?
Of course this is not the only reason, or
even the most important one. Only each
woman can say what the most important
aspects are for her own self. But there
are other reasons I'd like to discuss here-
-reasons I think contribute to all women's
wilderness adventures being a very power-
ful experience.
In the wilderness, stereotypes and precon-
ceptions fall by the wayside. Many
women, who have always imagined them-
selves as physically "weak" become very
surprised to find that they are capable of
picking up and portaging a 17 foot canoe.
We often see, for the first time, that our
sex-role stereotyping is so ingrained that
it has inhibited our enjoyment of being
outdoors and our connections with the
natural world. One woman told us that
for the first time she felt very stable,
very grounded
in the outdoors because she was wearing
a pair of heavy boots, after all those
years of wearing high heels!
Women perceive the wilderness differently
than men. There is no right or wrong
way— and neither way is more valid than
the other— they are just different.
Historically, the wilderness has been
viewed through men's narratives, through
men's eyes. But we're beginning to see
that through women's eyes, through our
own different rhythms and styles, we
perceive the wilderness to include
elements of nurturance, caring, commun-
ity, sustenance, and wholeness— ways of
perceiving that are distinctly different
from men's. It is exciting for me to
think that in the bringing together of
both men's and women's perceptions, the
wilderness will be truly more "whole".
ANDROGYNOUS CHILD
A Pink and Blue sky
nodding quietly at dusk.
Is this the Girl and Boy child
of Mother Earth
Who is wrapped in a
blanket of dark
polka-dotted light,
And suckled
by the Milky-Way
throughout the night?
Being with other women in the wilder-
ness also allows women to exercise
leadership roles, to gain self-confidence
by arriving at their own decisions, to
take new risks, explore new opportuni-
ties, and allow feelings of fear to come
up and find support for those feelings
from other women. As women, most of
us have really limited ourselves in our
everyday lives, and rarely have we
pushed beyond our unexplored boundaries
to try new adventures— especially outdoor
adventures.
For me, going into the wilderness is a
way of balancing my life in the city. I
desperately need that balance if I am to
live, work, and be creative at other
times in a large, metropolitan
area like Chicago. When I go into the
wilderness I rediscover parts of myself
that get lost in the city, and I come
back to the city more in touch with who
I am. I have to go away to be able to
come home. I know I have to be in the
outdoors more often when my ears ring
from the silence— in the city, they never
ring from the noise.
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LAYERED REALITY
I have
Touched the silence of wind in
Twisted branches
Entangling moon and stars.
Touched the silence of an
awakened dawn
To find the
Meeting place of dreams.
There, at the heart of silence
Lies an opening to
The layers of reality
Layered reality -
Surrounded by the
Brittle air of silence,
To be cracked only at the
Thought of a whisper.
In the wilderness my dreams change. I
dream of people from my past and
friends I haven't seen in a long time-the
parts of me I must put away to survive
in the urban environment. They are
often childhood friends— we used to play
together. I find it easier to "play" in the
wilderness than I do in the city. My "old
friends" return to me in the outdoors, and
my mind feels clear and alert.
And I dream about animals, lots of wild
animals, because I'm feeling wild and
powerful in an environment where my
basic everyday needs deal only with food,
shelter, travel, companionship. My
dreams tell the truth about how I am
feeling.
In the wilderness I also find that I spend
less time "looking" and more time "see-
ing." When I "look" through my view-
finder and take a photograph, it's usually
not the kind of photograph that I would
show in an exhibit. That's because just
"looking" is how most of us take
pictures. There's really no involvement
in "looking"— we don't get close , and we
don't spend time . As a result, there is
rarely an impact from such a
photograph, rarely a strong feeling that
the image evokes in us.
But "seeing" is different. When I really
see what I am photographing, I notice
the details, the colors, I get close, I
focus sharply. I spend time with the
image, sometimes hours and maybe days,
"seeing" its own light, and how other
light affects it. I sit, I watch, I go
slow, and let my feelings take over in
the final composition. When I see the
finished product I always know which
photographs were taken when I was only
"looking", and which were taken when I
was really "seeing." I am continually
amazed at the difference, and I am
continually in awe at the lessons we can
le arn from the outdoors.
A POINT OF CAUSE
There is a point in
history that is
uniquely me
The tiny dot
of Cause and Consequence.
To stand so small
Under the vastness
of all that's gone before,
and all that's
Yet to be.
Of all that we can learn from the wilder-
ness, probably the most important is for
each and every one of us to bring home
its lessons and keep them alive in our
everyday lives. To go away and exper-
ience new adventures is very important,
but to bring new confidences, the feel-
ings of adventure and wildness, an
ability to "look" less and "see" more,
and a sense of awe and wonder, back
home , is probably the most important
part of going on any wilderness adventure.
Woman has surfaced
From her depths
To look around at
Her world.
Her relationships, and
The part she plays
In the creation of it all.
Views once shaded
Hold new meanings
of unfolding images
Now . . exposed -
THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN
IN THE WILDERNESS
Photo by Susan Eckert
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FINDING THE WILD CLOSE TO HOME
BY Catherine Blair
I'm the one you see going to work on a
bicycle. Mine's the car that is usually
decked out with canoe on top and bike
hanging from the rack in the back, and
often the equipment for tent camping in-
side.
I would recommend looking for your
wildernesses and quiet spots as close at
hand as possible. One reason is that you
may need a much quicker and more fre-
quent get-away to nature than once or
twice a year. The other is the eco-
nomics of the thing. Mind you, I'm not
adverse to a big plunge in the wild— a
backpacking trip to Beaver Island in
Michigan in the middle of summer or to
Southern Illinois to Feme Cliff— but I
need a retreat almost daily or at least
weekly, so I look first to Sauk Woods.
Yes, that's right, outside my own door.
After a first snowfall, on a moonlit
evening on cross-country skis. Nobody is
there except me, or once in a while an
owl. On an early morning the chickadees
abound. You can really hear them. The
woods is absolutely its most fun and
beautiful when every branch and pocket
of tree is frosted with fresh snow. You
get the view of the breadth of the woods
in winter seeing through yards and yards
of bare trees. Nobody is there to enjoy
it but me and my companions!
Now I bike around early or late or in
between. Not when it's dusk— you can't
see the glass on the path. Take a broom
with you to clear it away. Ride fast
past the parking lots where people are
washing their cars and where loud stereos
may blare, the penalty you pay for the
immediacy of this woods.
Where does the canoe come in? At any
nearby creek or river. Yes, I've even
found rapids in Thorn Creek, putting in
by the 26th Street Bridge at a time when
the water was high from spring melt and
day-long rains. Butterfield Creek too,
and Hickory Creek off Route 45 where
the birds in migration hang around
to enjoy the lush banks of budding trees.
I rarely run into anybody on the creeks.
A kid who has just caught a fish on
the bridge asks to borrow some alumi-
num foil so he can cook his catch.
Another is actually gathering trash by
the roadside. Someone else stops as we
load up the canoe after a run on this
Sunday in March. "You can canoe that
stream?" He is told the various places
to put in on Hickory Creek, Wolf Road,
School House Road, New Lennox by the
lumber company. This man lives by the
creek, has a canoe, but never tried it.
Of course, it has to be done after rains,
early in spring for water sufficiency.
For a fall day adventure, we go a little
farther away, but generally just those
rivers shown on the Chicago Tribune
map of northeast Illinois. These rivers
are the closest to specks of wilderness
you still see around here. Quiet, no
motors, no radios, just you and the
ducks, herons, cardinals, cuckoos, jays,
nuthatches. My favorites are AuSable,
Little Calumet, Mazon, Du Page and Big
Pine Creek in Indiana. Middle Fork of
the Vermillion winds up at Kickapoo
State Park. These last two are weekend
adventures as they are two hours away,
but inexpressibly beautiful with spring
flowers, or in the late fall with reflec-
tions of autumn leaves on the face of
the river. For real adventure there is
Vermillion River by Lowell Bridge, close
to Starved Rock. Go there with a very
knowledgeable person, as this is the only
Illinois river with rapids and hazards.
So come with me to experience the
wonderful renewal of being outdoors, on
foot, on a bike, in a canoe or sitting
around a campfire in a state park or
national lakeshore. It is guaranteed to
cure your worries about Reagan policies,
gas prices, and the lack of good movies
at the Park Forest Theatre, at least for
a time. And remember, don't throw
your empties about in the river or on
the path. Be so good as to take the
remains of your sack lunch and drink
back home with you.
AGAINST NATURE:
WILDERNESS POEMS
by Judith McCombs
The Friend
You are going into the wilderness, O.K. , o K.
Do you mind if I check, have you matches enough,
might drip? What about mirrors,
how to signal, & suppose the compass
whack? Have you buttoned your pockets?
natural -born cave man, you know c
My book says your maps
Supposing it snows,
you intend to
you sit?
you, will you
write
kill
call
the heavens
do you know
goes out of
You're not
Will you carry I e D.?
can't be relied on.
you've heard of crevasses? If
(or even to think), where will
If something comes hunting for
You can always eat tree bark, you can always
& I'll pay. But what shall I do with your turtle,
in case it escapes? What about mail?
Are you sure you're carrying your own address,
& your three kinds of notebooks to write on-
the used-up, the partly used, & also the new?
I worry about you, uprooted, surrounded
by green things with roots that don't talk
& stone things with no roots, not talking at all.
Are you trying to survive (you know you won't like
all by yourself), & how can I get you, out there?
it?
home
it,
"The AGAINST NATURE poems come from
the Bruce Trail, the Boundary Waters,
and the Rocky Mountains, in the states
and Canada « The old Settler accounts
of this terrain bear witness that our
forebears distrusted 'the interminable
wilderness' in which they were so des-
perately busy trapping, chopping,
firing, and otherwise destroying,, Even
in 'isolation' and danger they clung
all the more to the quaint human habits
and projects they had imported, like
china, numbers, fences, into the
wildernesSo I see modern backpackers,
myself included, doing the same thing,
with our guaranteed calories and water,
our weatherproof zippers and shelters,
and above all our fierce dependencies
on map, compass, watch. It seems that
the more we love the wilderness, and the
further in we go, the more we have to
act human, to keep apart from nature,
lest it engulf us and stop our getting
back, to our time and our kind e And
yet we do pack in, temporarily,
partially, bringing to nature our own
(unnatural) wonderment and love "
(Reprinted from AGAINST NATURE:
WILDERNESS POEMS, McCombs, Judith,
Dustbooks, Paradise, CA , 1979 e )
Judith McCombs
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A TREE FARM 'WILDERNESS'
by Suzanne Prescott
As we think back over our lives,
the web of experiences and relation-
ships reveal unfolding patterns of
achievements, friends, family relation-
ships and collected personal treasures.
It seems that we less often take time
to consider the sequence of changing
environments which have held meaning
for us over the years. With time,
the number of environments we've
entered increases — where we grew up,
where we've visited with our families,
colleges we've attended, where we
work, where we live with our families,
our vacations, and even retirement.
Some of these settings are nothing
more than a backdrop where more drama-
tic, and exciting life events unfold,
and yet some environments hold consid-
erable meaning, apart from the relations
they foster.
As with treasured possessions,
some environments, like the wilderness,
form important threads of continuity
through our lives. The pattern of
changing environmental seasons stretch
out over the years paralleling the
seasons of our own lives.
Many environments have been lost.
Buildings have been razed; neighbor-
hoods have vanished; grandparents'
homesteads have disappeared; and child-
hood fields and streams have become
housing developments. Some of. us,
however, have been fortunate to main-
tain a relationship with a natural,
less spoiled, area. Repeated visits
through time renew with each visit
feelings of comfort, exhilaration ,
and peace.
I look up firom a series ofi mushroom
pi.ctuA.zA that I've recently taken during
a particularly damp summer, I let my
eye run across the. Zand* cape, in firont
o\ me, A^ter the cornfields o£ Illinois,
these gentle Allegheny mountains with
their more intricate visual treats are
exhiZarating and comforting , A tiny
home im.cn chatters busily Imam an old
stump. Against the background o^ Mount
Tussey, across the valley, steam curls
up slowly firom a cup o£ co^ee, A
late morning veil ofi &og has nearly
relinquished iXs hold o\ mountain tn.ee
topi* A blu.e-gK.ey gnatcatcher &li.cks
its tail {rom the top o{ a pine tn.ee,
A light wind stirs dancing stalks o£
Queen Anne*' lace, A chipmunk faom
its perch on a granite lump eyes
me cautiously. The acres stretch before
me. Here in Western Pennsylvania there
is no one but me on this small tree
fianm.
mmmBmBm
And then on another occasion, , , I
check the temperature gauge--200°Vl
'This is great, ' the descendant oi a
finn says, "Yeah," I respond with a
certain lack oi enthusiasm. The sauna
ajs just ri,ght, I check a vieu) o^ my
iace in the nearby bucket ofa water,
'Damn/ I think, 'I've forgotten to
take out my earrings , ' and predictably
my skewered ears, like marshmallows p
are becoming so fat and squishy on the
inside, and ifi the bucket's reflection
is right, they seem to be charring nicely
on the outside, too, I can hardly waiX
to get out and jump in the pool, A^ter-
all, i^ priests can turn wine into the
blood o& Christ, I can certainly make
an ice cube out oft a marshmallow.
Over the past 25 years v this environ-
ment more than any other ' as provided
me with meaningful experiences and more
opportunities to share or be alone,
comfortable and free. I've watched this
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tree farm during many seasons over the
years. I see the more subtle changes
in its ecology through the seasons of
my life. Many important personal rela-
tionships have developed here and I've
shared in the communal spirit of fellow-
ship, for in fact this is a recreation-
al cooperative, shared by others.
Though many experiences have been
shared with friends here, many other
experiences, particularly winter, fall,
and early spring have been experienced
alone. It's difficult to think of these
experiences without feeling self-indul-
gent.
Hene ib a cabin that I helped
to build oven 25 yeanb ago. Hundnedb
have teuton hene oven the yeanb. To-
nite, thene ib no one. The wood*
gradually danken ab the tun' 6 bmoky
nayb catch columnbofa dubt in the. ain.
An oven bind make* a labt ^oKay in the.
anden.bn.LUih. Tneeb once bhont, now
towen ovenhead. I idly bpecalate, with
a modicum o{, guilt, how many boand
^eet 0(5 lumben could be. cat ^nom a
ne.an.by yellow pine tn.ee. I bee my cat
at the end ofa the lange communal noom
patiently waiting ^on a moabe to appean.
He' 6 caught a numben ofa mice; I have
no benbe that the ecology hob been
dibnupted. We'ne both having a time
o& oun liveb. I think back on bo many
occasion* t that coald happen nowhene
else.
I lie on my back in the pool „
(Thene' b a negulan bwimming pool on the
bide 0($ thlt> mountain — in this 'wiZden-
nesb' .} The topb o& immense whiXe
oaks ^loat in and oat ofi my virion.
A pain ol ned- tailed hawk* cincle
high oven tiie valley looking fion btxay
meadow voles in the fields. A batten-
{ly is committing buicide in the khal-
lowb. Cloudb one traveling finom one
tet OjJ peaks to the next.
A tn.ee hob fallen on a cabin*
Ho one elbe lb hene. 1 clean iX away...
Tnom the deck o^ one cabin, I imagine
I'm on a bhip blipping oven the {ieldb
with thein. bhaking coven oft gnasb...
Somehow I've gotten mybel^
tunned anound in the woodb. I'm not
coming oat whene I planned. Hene the
plantb one denbe lubh and damp. l\y
cat, who ib an accomplished walken,
is complaining. He lobeb patience and
betb ofifi on his own. Thoagh he'b
neven been hene begone, he leads ab
expently back to camp'....
Jt'b Octoben. I'm lying unden
the oak tneeb. Wany bnown and gneen
mebbageb {loot down to coven me...
We one picking watencnesb friom the
bpningwaten. The lane ap the bide o^
the mountain tannelb thnough the tneeb.
A cunnent oft pine bcent ib bo thick
it makeb me clobe my eyeb.
This is no wilderness like the
tundra. There are no unci imbed peaks
here. I need not carry water or a
pack. I will not get dusty and
dirty without a chance to clean up.
But the similarities are sufficient.
Here there is no blacktop j no TV, no
stores, and often y/ery few or no
people. This is my wilderness. I
come here to recover. I come here to
indulge my senses. I come here to be
myself, and to be part of something I
feel I understando I am part of this
landscape. This wilderness is me.
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RIVER RAFTING ON THE
DOLORES RIVER
by Pat Watson
(Reprinted and adapted by permission
from WOMANKIND, Vol. II, Issue XVI,
1980)
If you haven't washed your hair in a
bucket of icy river water, and I mean
icy, you haven't lived.
After four days without showers, Sharon
Merriman, an Indianapolis attorney and I
were willing to wash our hair in anything.
We had been river rafting on the Dolores
River, which is exclusively Colorado
mountain snow melt water. The bucket
of river water was so cold, it made our
neck and head muscles contract to the
pain level but it was worth it. It felt so
good when we quit.
We were surprised to discover that both
Sharon's wiry natural curls and my baby-
fine long straight hair felt and looked
better than any beauty shop chemicals
had achieved—ever. The exhilaration of
freshly washed hair, sparkling summer
sunshine, icy water was truly a "Rocky
Mountain high."
Our first day on the river was a short
shakedown cruise to an early campsite.
We went through a few rapids, but
nothing that broke water over our bow.
The scenery in the high Colorado moun-
tains was lush with spruce, pale aspen in
their spring green leaves and wild-
flowers— delphinium, daisies, translucent
orange poppies— all covered by incredibly
blue sky.
As the only unescorted women on the
trip, Sharon and I became "You-two
girls." First day, some of our male
fellow passengers offered to help us
wrestle with our duffle bags and tent; we
thanked them, but lugged our own. Some
of the men looked a trifle glum. Later
one of the men told me: "I thought sure
I'd have to help you with your tent, your
baggage, everything, and there you
are, doing a faster, better job of setting
up than I am."
Another accolade came from a dignified
older man who said, "I have to thank
'You-two-girls' for giving me the best
adventure I've ever had. I was going to
walk around the rapids, and come back
to the boat to get my daybag, but when
I saw you ready to go, I had to go. I
couldn't back out with ''You-two- girls''
sitting there. Shooting Old Snaggle-
tooth was the most exciting thing I've
ever done."
Old Snaggletooth. Scoring about a five
on the kayak scale of difficulty. Old
Snaggletooth had loomed ahead like a
frightening promise. Anyone who chose
to walk around the rapids rather than
ride them was encouraged to do so.
Every piece of gear was checked to
make sure it was secured with rope and
tarp.
Old Snaggletooth was the wildest water I
had ever seen since the tide came in at
Tenby, Wales. I hitched my life jacket
tighter and asked: "What should we do
if we get tossed out of the boat?"
John, the group leader, gave me his full
attention. "Don't let the boat go over
you. If you fall out, get as far away
from the boat as you can. Are you sure
you want to go?"
"Certainly."
It was nice to see his eyes approve.
I'll always remember the light of antici-
pation on crewwoman Chris Raf fin's face
as she checked out Old Snaggletooth.
One fleeting glance told it all: she
loves the river, loves adventure; she
comes fully alive facing danger. After
seeing her expression, the Israeli Army
couldn't have kept me out of that boat.
Our turn! My mouth is suddenly dry.
Al pushes the boat off the bank and we
are gripped by the current, yet it's
quiet. Al rows easily. I wonder if Old
Snaggletooth is a shaggy dog joke. Sud-
denly, we dip. Water breaks over the
three foot high pontoon prow of the
boat. I hear the oarlocks creak with
strain. "Hang on!" Hell yes, I'm hang-
ing on. We whirl into another rock.
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Sharon yells, "Wow!" More icy water
hits my face and trickles inside my
layers of warm clothing.
Rock. Bounce. Twirl. Strain. Rock.
Spin. Rock. Creak. Rock. Bounce.
Rock. Bounce. Rock. Spin — Peace.
It's all over. We pull into the bank and
pick up those poor souls who had elected
to walk. We are different.
We camped early that night. The crew
was down to their last calorie of energy,
yet they remained cheerful as they set
up for supper. Sharon and I spread our
wet clothing on shrubbery and toasted
our triumph over the river with a little
Chablis. We watched the rising moon
illuminate a rock formation that looked
like a Greek temple on a hill.
Back at the next campsite, Sharon and I
elected to take a river bath. We find a
shallow eddy with a sturdy bush to grab
if we lose our footing i n the fast water.
Clutching soap and branch, I step into
the water. After my feet turn numb, it
is quite refreshing. The biodegradable
Neutrogena soap promptly slips out of
my hands, so I finish sudsing with sham-
poo and discover that if I immerse just
part of me at a time, I won't go into
hypothermia. Drying in the sunshine
while we walked back to our tent in
freshly washed swimsuits and towel
sarongs was a marvelous feeling.
"'You-two-girls' just amaze me," says a
male voice. "Did you really take a bath
in that river?"
"Yep. Felt great."
Where did you go? How did you manage?"
"Easy. Right over there. Hang on to
your soap." And another convert goes
into the river.
"We're gonna howl tonight," Al promised.
After a dinner of chicken cordon bleu,
tossed salad, and strawberry shortcake,
John broke out his harmonica and Al
tuned his battered guitar. Then we had
a campfire songfest that drew this group
of strangers into friends. A small jug
of Tennessee sippin' whiskey made rever-
ent rounds about the circle. Al's pleasant
voice led us from "When the Saints Go
Marching In" to a composed-on-the-spot
ballad about rafting on the Dolores.
The stars were thick overhead until the
moon crept over the ridge; we threw
back our heads and howled and it was
glorious.
I want to go back and ride the river
again.
********
Now that I know what primitive camping
is, I can offer some suggestions:
1. Don't skimp on wool clothing; dress
in layers so you can shed or don
warmth, at will. Wear wool socks;
even when wet, they will keep
you feet warm.
2. Bring SCUBA wetsui t booties.
They won't hold up to a life on
the river, but they'd have been
perfect for a week. My feet were
cold and wet, with bleeding blisters
where my tennis shoes rubbed.
Pack moleskin and Band Aids.
3. Get the best tent you can afford.
The cost increases with efficiency,
but at high altitude or in a strong
wind, an expensive tent is worth
every dollar.
4. Pack a thin mylar emergency blanket;
it literally saved Sharon's life.
5. Remember you are leaving warm
water behind; pack a spray can of
shampoo, a iar of cleansing cream,
and a box of pre-moistened towelettes
for comfortable camping.
6. Eventually, you will WANT to take
a bath in the river; carry Ivory
or soap on a rope for this occasion,
or splurge on backpacker's biodegrad-
able soap in a tube.
7. Be prepared to be sleepless, cold,
wet, and to have a glorious experience.
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REVIEW ESSAY
by Lynn Thomas
Strauss
WOODSWOMAN & WOMEN AND WILDERNESS
by Anne LaBastille
WOMEN IN THE WILDERNESS
by China Gal land
Dr. Anne LaBastille, Ph.D. is a wild-
life ecologist and a widely published
writer-photographer on outdoor and
conservation-related subjects „ She
has traveled world wide in her work
as wildlife and conservation consul-
tant.
China Gal land is an adventurer and
explorer. She is author of Women in
the Wilderness and co-founder of the
organization of Women in the Wilder-
ness which supports women's efforts to
become involved in wilderness experiences.
The organization publishes a newsletter
with resource information, runs a jobs
clearinghouse for women who want to work
outdoors and is developing an environ-
mental forum.
Part of the appeal of these books
is that the authors themselves and the
women they write about become strong,
alive, believable role models for the
reader.
Who among us women have not imagined
ourselves at times to be a female
Davy Crockett, Tom Sawyer, Commodore
Perry? Well here we are introduced to
real women who have lived lives in the
outdoors as explorers, scientists,
divers, mountain climbers, engineers.
We are glad to discover that we needn't
have stopped being "torn-boys" after all.
And we can if we wish, take up outdoors
where most of us left off so many
years ago.
In Woods woman , Anne LaBastille
shares a part of her life with the
reader in an intimate and poetic style.
With vivid descriptions of life alone
in the wilderness of the Adirondack
mountains she tells how she built her
own log cabin home and of her life
among the trees.
"During those first weeks and months
at the cabin my close and constant
companions were trees. I became
intimately acquainted with every tree
inside a 400 foot radius. What at
first seemed like a dense stand of
random temperate-zone vegetation —
maples, spruces, hemlocks, beeches,
birches, and pines — gradually intro-
duced itself as an orderly congregation
of unique individuals, oool came to
touch them all through trimming,
pruning, clearing, cutting, admiring
and listening."
"I developed an amazing awareness
of these trees. First, I noticed
their noises. In wind, the spruces
gave off a somber deep, sad whoosh,
while the pines made a higher, happier,
softer sough. After my initial surprise
at the differences in sound between
these two species, I began listening
to other kinds of trees. Balsam firs
made a short, precise, polite swishing;
red and sugar maples gave an impatient
rustling; yellow birches, a gentle,
restful sighing."
Next I discovered a whole assortment
of tree scents. On hot, dry summer
days, the balsams, spruces, and pines
acted like giant sticks of incense,
giving off a redolence which filled the
air inside and outside the cabin. The
carpet of dead needles, the dry duff,
the trickles of pitch, the sun-warmed
bark itself, all gave off subtle odors."
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Accompanying Ms. LaBasti lie's
marvelous narrative are beautifully
detailed photographs which significant-
ly enrich her story- telling.
The chapter of Woodswoman that
remains most vivid for me is the des-
cription of the first winter and the
process of freeze-up.
The cabin was on the shore of
Black Bear Lake surrounded by thick
woods and with no roads leading to the
cabin e Travel out for supplies and
trips was done by boat in summer,
snowshoes or snowmobiles in winter —
except during freeze-up when the lake
was too icy for a boat but not yet
solid enough to walk on.
"As soon as a test hole chopped
in the ice showed a 3-inch thickness,
I felt it safe to start walking down
the lake... As I walked, I kept tapping
the pole ahead of my feet on the ice.
Good ice makes a solid resonant thwang;
rotten ice a dull thud; thin ice, a
high short tap."
"The first week or two I was
extremely cautious and leery about
walking on ice. Some of my loneliest
experiences on Black Bear Lake took
place on those blue-gray, chill Decem-
ber evenings when daylight failed at
4:30 P.M. and snow showers sifted down
from lowering clouds. I would walk
home over gray glare ice with a heavy
pack and my pole, wondering if I'd even
have a chance for a second breath if
I fell through now-or now-or now."
Through reading Woodswoman I
learned many new things such as how a
log cabin is actually constructed and
what skills are necessary for wilder-
ness survival. I got to know a remark-
able woman, Anne LaBasti lle^ whose
strength of character as well as of
body became clearly evident. I redis-
covered some of my own connection to
the wilderness. My own love of trees,
my deep appreciation of the changing
seasons, my as yet unconquered fear of
solitude. And perhaps, most importantly,
I felt challenged, pushed to stretch
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myself in new ways, to discover new
strengths in myself and to know that
I too can be strong, alone and survive
in harmony with nature.
Woodswoman also led me to two
other wonderful books. Another by
LaBastille, Women and Wilderness
and one of a similar title, Women in
the Wilderness by China Gal land.
These books cover similar ground.
Both point out the ways in which society
has historically alienated or excluded
women from the outdoors. The authors
maintain that, unlike men, women do
not want to conquer nature, but to
interact with it. To test themselves
and to experience the thrill of
sucessfully running a dangerous rapid,
reaching a towering peak or exploring
where no one has gone before.
These books are a celebration of
some of the special women of the past
who were explorers and adventurers in
the outdoors.
Both books present a thoughtful
examination of the concurrent flower-
ing of the new feminist and environmen-
tal movements and the deep connection
felt to exist between women and nature.
As women we are connected to nature,
to seasons, to new life, to death —
there is logic in the idea that we
belong outdoors*
And finally, both authors show us
the paths of contemporary women who
are pursuing careers and growth exper-
iences out of doors in the mountains,
caves, rivers, forests and oceans of our
world. And in so doing offer role
models and possible new directions for
those women who have not yet entered
the wilderness.
Solitude is a reappearing theme.
As women we are taught to fulfill
social obligations. Aloneness is to
be feared and avoided, not sought and
enjoyed. Yet there is clearly much to
learn about oneself through the ex-
perience of solitude. To be truly
independent one must find strength in
solitude. Many courses of study, in
religion, scouting, peace corps train-
ing, the human potential movement, etc
require time spent alone.
From the strength grown from soli-
tude and the sureness found in leader-
ship roles women can experience a sense
of well-being, of renewal. As China
Gal land says in her introduction;
"The journey we make, the route we
seek, is toward wholeness, toward our
humanity o <,.."
"Going into the wilderness invokes
the wildness within us all. This may
be the deepest value of such an exper-
ience, the recognition of our kinship
with the natural world."
Gal land's book diverges from
LaBasti lie's in several ways. It is
written in a form suggestive of a
journal called aVutter? a book kept
by a ship's pilot for navigation in
the days before there were reliable
maps. Rutters were comprehensive logs
of the experience of the journey. They
contained charts, distances, directions,
and a narrative account of the route to
be followed. They might contain numer-
ous notes, speculations, and descrip-
tions in the margins. They were in-
tensely personal and idiosyncratic.
So Gal land's book is a rutter, a
guide developed from her personal
experience. It is also a loose history
of the organization "Women in the Wil-
derness ." As such, it offers descrip-
tive examples and quotes from partici-
pants on the significance of women being
together and leading one another into and
through the wilderness.
The adventure I was most tempted by
was the all -women's ocean kayaking
expedition in Baja, Mexico.
"We waken in the dark at four- thirty
in the morning and begin to load the
boats. Our vessels are, fol boats,
two-person oceangoing kayaks. Our
expedition is self-contained; we carry
all our supplies for the nineteen days.
Our dive bags contain wet suits, masks,
fins, and thirty pounds of lead weight.
In addition we have bags of dry food,
forty-pound water jugs, and personal
gear, all of which must be completely
loaded and unloaded from our boats
each day. Each night we will carry the
eighty-pound boats up onto the beach."
"I sleep on the beach and waken with
the commotion of pelicans, diving and
feeding in the nightoo.I can hear a
whale breathe nearby; there she blows
again... the moon comes out from behind
clouds. The sea, the birds are flash-
ing in the night, "
The most fascinating aspect of
LaBastille's Women and Wilderness
is the biographical sketches of
women pursuing careers outdoors* A
new world of job possibilities and
lifestyle options was opened up for
me and for my daughters by hearing
about the lives and work of real women
of all ages and life circumstances.
Some of the careers described were
log cabin architect, environmental
education teacher, marine biologist,
environmental impact engineer, island
naturalist, rafting instructor and
river guide, outdoor journalist, and
zoologist.
Both of these books leave the reader
with a sense of our own potential to
experience adventure, to tap our own
wildness and yet offer the reassurance
that these women are like us, and like
us began from a traditional framework.
Gall and and LaBasti lie offer rich
bibliographies and appendices listing
organizations, outfitters, programs,
and other resources in the existing
network of women helping one another
to begin their personal journey into
the wilderness.
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WORDS SPILL ACROSS MY DESERT
for Risa
My history
loses its shyness
in the immense
gesture of your voice.
You listen
like rough silk
indigo and pale gold.
When we sit down together
and you notice
pools of darkness y y
shining in the sleeping woman /.;/
sheaves of rain come
enfolded in your power./"
THE LESSON
she leans into me with her question
i want to be a lake
but small wounds
bits of blue sky
that have been gnawed away
reveal my true flesh (the flesh of my 1
make my voice raw, uncontrolled
on this cool day
sitting under a fruit tree
i reach into the substance
which creates uncaptured sight ,,
lean into her with gentleness
that feels the pain
of all my friends
as they keep on.
now she goes
across the field.
i'll never know for sure
if I have quenched her appetite.
exhausted i
pretend i'm still inside myself,
let go with some laughter.
by Judy Katz-Levine
ife)
\
V&avxLng By
STERUME LACY
by Judy Katz-Levine
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hsf Moving, with an ice storm in my throat
'm not an easy transplant.
«ncVmy taproot's cut,
the mulch removed,
it's touch and go
if I % 2CL win%ea^-e^e«^
/*
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9
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Can 1 ^ Bush-.asi.de
e rich home loam
of friends-,
& ^-€ami 1 itfP^la c e s ,
^ the garden
3^ ""ST^with the jonquils
We open memories
like Hershies cocoa
the lid sticks tight.
coming up.
A light west wind
would blow me away;
it takes so long
o settle in.
Memories drag "behind me
like a sack of tubers;
I am full of leafy grief.
We think th
<J^%>
JL>
has happened,
is fixed as a photograph
locked in an album,
but it changes, it develops,
mixed with time,
like sugar mixes in
that dark and bitter powder,
making a drink
that warms and restores.
Sflil, iMn the frozeT»**ground,
blind feeders, fine as nerves,
egin theit; veiny search
for water and for love.
Barbara Crooker
Barbara Crooker
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Book
-Review!
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!»^p||#|j BOOK
REVIEW
by Joan Lewis
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside
Her, Harper & Row, 1978.
by Susan Griffin
These are hard times, I guess c The
planetary prognosis is grim c Taxes
and unemployment on the rise — morale
and morals down My parents, survivors
of the Great Depression, might offer a
smug smile at the current handwringing
of writers discussing the economic/
moral /international malaise,, They know
what hard times are all abouto Yet this
is a changed people confronting predict-
able, cyclical woes — no longer armed with
the simple societal values and institu-
tions of fifty years ago. Technology is
encroaching on the humanity of our mores —
or more accurately, our inability to
handle technology threatens our grasp of
what defines humanity— and thus our value
system experiences profound and at times
flippant change c Surviving with our
humanity intact— the integrity of the
human condition preserved — is perhaps
the greatest challenge of the '80's,
most uniquely addressed to the female
who is most emotionally and biologically
attuned to our origins, our planeto
Susan Griffin has written a history of
sorts about this struggle to preserve our
humanity— a conflict as old as the dicho-
tomies of the sexes. The historical male
impulse has been to conquer, to bend
nature to his ends, asserting his own
superiority, while woman adapts, using
her natural surroundings. It has been
her role to conserve rather than destroy.
Identified as she is with nature, woman
has shared in nature's subjugation by man,
who through religion, philosophy, govern-
ment, science strove to rationalize his
war upon his own sources c Griffin uses
voices out of history to illuminate this
subjugation:
"And it is written that "not the
woman but the man is the image of God."
And that "the image of God is in man
and it is one." That "Women were drawn
from man, who has God's jurisdiction as
if he were God's vicar, because he has
the image of the one God "
That as God is the principle of the
universe so is man, in likeness to God,
the principle of the human race.
It is decided that the minds of
women are defective,, That the fibers
of the brain are weak. That because women
menstruate regularly the supply of blood
to the brain is weakened.
All abstract knowledge, all knowledge
which is dry, it is cautioned, must be
abandoned to the laborious and solid
mind of man "For this reason," it is
further reasoned, "women will never learn
geometry."
There is a controversy over whether
or not women should be taught arithmetic.
To a woman who owns a telescope it
is suggested that she rid herself of it,
that she "stop trying to find out what's
happening on the moon."
A close friend, upon my excited recom-
mendation that she read Woman and Nature ,
asked, "Will it make me angry?" I was
hard pressed to give a simple answer. The
book had evoked so many emotions in me
as I read it— including deep anger. That,
in itself, earmarks a book for me as
special, possessing a depth, a three di-
mensional quality written out of the un-
edited human condition. I was tempted
to be less than honest out of my need for
my friend to share the experience of this
book with me— and frustrated with my in-
adequacy to give a simple straightforward
description.
Woman and Nature is divided into four
books. In the first, Matter , Griffin
describes how the male has made use of
women as he has made use of nature,
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reducing both to objects to be shaped,
harnessed, domesticated and controlled.
She compares man's regard for women
with his attitude toward Land, Timber,
Wind, Cows, Mules, the Show Horse,
"Her Body" Book Two is about Separa-
tion , and documents the ways in which
woman has been separated from her true
self by His Power, His Knowledge, His
Control, His Certainty, and Terror,
Book Three, The Separate Rejoined
shows how the divided come together
again, how women enter a new space,
a new time, and learn to hear their
own voices, leading to transformation
and clarity» Book Four, Matter Revisi-
ted , predicts how this will change us
and change the world.
Woman and Nature is difficult to cap-
ture in analysis. Something in me rebels
at a cold parsing of structure and content.
My academic training is overwhelmed by
my sexual identity as woman in this soci-
ety, at this particular historical place,
and out of my personal experience and
legacy as female. That condition, of it-
self, suggests anger, pride, hubris. The
book is an accurate reflection of that
condition — the female condition now claim-
ing its rightful, essential place in our
consciousness,
"Her birth. The day she said her
first word. The time of her growing
awareness. The days of her bleeding.
The years when she learned about death.
The age she was when she accepted change.
The time of her broadening. When she
felt her body become strong, That time
of her life when she learned reciprocity
and the inviolability of the other. The
year when her anger gave her clarity and
all her weeping was filled with intelli-
gence. The morning of her full powers.
The celebration of her first gray hairs.
The solemn recognition of her coming of
age."
Woman And Nature is an historical
description of the female experience,
an indictment of the brutality, humil-
iations, injustices, a celebration of
its nobility. It is poetry quite liter-
ally written by a poet, and an epistle
to the future of womanhood, I believe
this is a very special time for women:
we are linked, attuned to a unique and
cosmic awareness of ourselves and our
emergence— the importance of this phen-
omenon in this crucial time. Griffin has
most eloquently described that awareness
that women are experiencing universally
today. We have come into our own. This
awareness of the needs we can— must—fill
if humankind is to survive on this planet,
precludes malaise and vindictiveness.
The irony of woman's position has been
that her innate awareness of the absolute
necessity of her influence for the sur-
vival of the species must tolerate the
ignorance, derision and fears of estab-
lished society. She has been forced to
plot for our survival as a race in secre-
cy, lest a male oriented establishment
discover its own inadequacies „ Given the
stakes, anger is folly— mere self-indul-
gence in the face of survival, This is
what the women of 1980 are about:
"Vie say the ages when she knew her
own power. The age when she kept her
own name. The age when she revealed
the secret of the wheel , The age
when she learned to speak with the
animals. The age when she discovered
the seed. The age during which she
wove truth about herself. The age
when she joined forces with the earth.
When she listened and was heard. The
age when she knew she was not alone.
The Age of her Resonance,"
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UPDATE ON THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE
NETHERLANDS: MRS. JERI JOSEPH
(The news article that follows was
translated from the Dutch by Mijnheer
DeVries and forwarded to us by Stu
Hodes. It appeared in the New
Rotterdam Courant on March 7, 1981 e
For our interview with the Honorable
Jeri Joseph, see our Summer 1979 issue,
"Women in Politics", VOL. Ill, No. 1,
p. 33-34.)
Tomorrow the American ambassador, Mrs.
Jc Joseph, leaves our country to resume,
after two and a half years, her work as
a journalist in her home town, Minneapolis.
It is usual for a new ambassador to be
appointed, following the election to
office of a new president., The appoint-
ment of MrSo Joseph was a political
one, a token of gratitude for the
important part she played for fifteen
years in the Democratic Party in the
United States 6
Her arrival in the Netherlands was not
without difficulties. Again, The Hague
had been deemed worthy of a political
appointment rather than a career diplo-
mat. In addition, the political climate
in the Netherlands included regular flare-
ups of anti -Americanism. The problem of
the installation of modern nuclear
weapons led to unexpected political
passions. A good background of special-
ized technical and historical knowledge,
as well as tact, were required for dis-
cussions of such matters. For a non-
professional diplomat such as Mrs.
Joseph, the tasks must not have been
simpleo The way in which she, never-
theless, has represented the American
point of view, and the way she has
fought these debates competently and
indefatigably have won great respect
from her supporters as well as from
opponents.
Only between allies and friends is a
dispute of such sharpness conceivable.
That this friendship has not worn
away, but has grown substantially, is
largely attributed to the personal merits
of Mrs. Joseph.
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Dear Helen,
I just finished reading your "Coming
Home" editorial in the beautiful
Snow Flowers number of Creative
Woman .
Your idealism and hope have not dimin-
ished in their intensity. Would that
I could share them! Watergate, the
Carter disappointment, and now the
barbarians from the Wild West, led by
a simple minded actor, destroying the
patiently built social welfare programs,
at a pace that I would have thought
unimaginable. That's our country.
The rest of the world? We now see
that capitalism has great capacity to
lift a country's standard of living
(albeit at fearful costs in human
misery), but that once developed,
capitalism is an abysmal failure,
caught hopelessly between inflation
and unemployment.
Communism as an alternative? That dream
has proved to be a nightmare! I'm
pessimistic, more pessimistic than
I've ever been. I see capitalism
struggling desperately to survive only
through armaments and wars.
There will be new institutions, new
accommodations, but long after I'm
gone and only after much suffering in
the collapse of our societies and the
building of a new world.
SOoo.keep up your hopeful spirit.
You'll need it to continue the strug-
gle for the brave new world, however
and whenever it may come! And, pessi-
mistic though I be, I still hold
that there's no worthier way to spend
one's life than in trying to bring
about that brave new world.
Bienvenida!
Jerry
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&cu.d, "I don't tAu&t any an6u)e/tj>. I've
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Women's
Expedition
Directory
From: Galland, China
Women in The Wilderness
Harper & Row, NY 1980.
American Women's Himalayan Expeditions (AWHE)
1013 Paradise Way; Palo Alto, CA 94306
Supports the participation ot women in expeditionary
mountaineering. Funds left from the 1978 women's
Annapurna Expedition will be used as grants or loans
to women taking part in climbing expeditions and ex-
change programs with women climbers from other
countries, and for summer meets.
Artemis
P.O. Box 5749; Austin, TX 78763
Chartered adventures available to most areas of the
Southwest. A small company which organizes back-
country trips for women in small groups who explore
rivers, mountains, and deserts, acauiring basic out-
door skills and experience. In the summer, Artemis
goes to the mountains of New Mexico, Colorado, and
Wyoming. Winter, they use the rivers and mountains of
Big Bend, Texas.
Blackberry Creek Camp
P.O. Box 28; Pulga, CA 95965
(916)334-9720
A residential summer camp for young women nine
through fifteen years of age, run by an all-female
staff. Situated in a rural community in northern Califor-
nia and surrounded by national forest, Blackberry
Creek Camp aims to promote self-confidence, self-
reliance, and emotional growth through outdoor
group living. Swimming, day and overnight hikes.
Campers also learn basic tool use, farm animal care,
organic gardening (much of the camp's food comes
from its gardens), canning, cheese and yogurt mak-
ing, and may choose from a variety of activities such
as pottery making, dyeing, and weaving. Vegetarian
food provided.
Encounter Four
Kayla Melville
Butler County Community College; Butler, PA 16001
(412)287-8711, ext. 138
Adventure-based outdoor program for a variety of
people. Women's courses include cross-country ski-
ing, winter camping, rock climbing, white-water raf-
ting and canoeing, flatwater canoeing, caving, and
backpacking. These trips led by women are in
groups of eight to twelve participants of varied age
and experience.
Girl Scouts of America
839 Third Avenue; New York, NY 10022
(212)940-7500
Founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low, the Girl
Scouts is the largest voluntary organization for girls in
the world. Open to all girls, ages six to seventeen, Girl
Scouts provides outdoor opportunities through camp-
ing experiences right from the start. Courses vary from
camping, backpacking, mountain climbing, cross-
country skiing, rafting, canoeing to survival and
desert travel. They operate camps in all the mountain
ranges of the United States. An excellent way to start
early.
Healing Ways for Women
P.O. Box 350; Buemeville, CA 95446
Biannual gatherings in the redwoods of Sonoma. For
women healers, artists, musicians, and friends, pro-
viding an opportunity to express and explore the im-
age of the goddess. The weekend includes
workshops, recreation, vegetarian food, indoor lodg-
ing, and child care.
The Infinite Odyssey
25 Huntington Avenue, Suite 324; Boston, MA 02116
(617)353-1793
Among their offerings is a women's rafting and moun-
taineering trip in the Tetons of Wyoming. Designed
and led by women, the course offers instruction in
rope work, rock climbing, orienteering, and minimum-
impact camping.
Institute for Environmental Awareness
Women's Programs: Bertha Petruski
P..O. Box W-821; Greenfield, MA 01302
The guiding purpose of the institute is to develop
awareness, understanding, and positive action
toward both the natural and cultural environments
among people of all ages and circumstances. They
use the philosophies and skills of conservation, out-
door and environmental education. The institute has
a wide variety of programs especially for women,
ranging from climbing and orienteering to "The Night
Experience" and "Counseling and Caring Through
Outdoor Programs."
Keep Listening
P./O. Box 446; Sandy, OR 97055
(503) 622-3895
A year-round program of backpacking, bicycle cam-
ping, and cross-country skiing trips for women in the
Northwest. Sessions teach outdoor skills, so that the
beginner can learn what she needs to plan her own
trips.
Nantahala Outdoor Center, Inc.
Star Route, P.O. Box 68; Bryson City, NC 28713
(704)488-2175
The center is open year round, offering a wide range
of adventurous outdoor experiences to people with
all ranges of experience. They provide equipment
and instruction in a variety of areas, with a large
white-water program. Women's skills clinics are of-
fered.
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National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)
P.O. Box AA; Lander, WY 82520
(307) 332-4381
Teaches skills essential for the preservation of the
earth's wilderness; minimum-impact camping and
leadership are essential. Among their offerings is a
month-long women's mountaineering course led by
women. Emphasis is placed on technical climbing
skills, such as steep snow and rock work, protection
placement, snow travel techniques, and peak
ascents.
Nature Explorations — Tuleyome Peninsula
Conservation Center
1 176 Emerson Street; Palo Alto, CA 94301
(415) 324-8737
Nonprofit, tax-exempt organization of teachers, artists,
and parents providing active environmental educa-
tion for people of all ages. Special offerings include
women's backpacking trips, a single-parent-family
program, and other workshops organized and led by
women.
Nordic Ski Ventures
P.O. Box 1576, Tahoe City, CA 95730
(916) 583-2875
The creation of two women, both Tahoe ski guides,
this small organization offers an in-depth approach to
cross-country skiing. Teaches basic cross-country
techniques and winter safety skills. One to five day
programs.
Outback Adventures
Valerie Berg
505 Fruit, N.W.; Albuquerque, NM 87102
(505) 842-6226
This New Mexico-based company provides
backpacking-snorkeling adventures to Baja, cross-
country skiing in New Mexico, backpacking and rock
climbing in New Mexico and Texas, and spring white-
water rafting in New Mexico and Colorado. They do
contract courses for stress-management and
organizational retreats. All trips also offered at various
times for women as professional retreats, skills train-
ing, or adventure trips. Staffed by skilled wilderness
people and psychologists.
Outdoor Education Association
11468 Redwood Highway; Wilderville, OR 97543
(503)479-4215
In cooperation with Osprey River Trips, Inc., offers
some women-only wilderness trips as well as trips for
women and men. Experiential white-water training in
oar-and paddle-powered inflatable rafts.
The Outdoor Woman's School
Carole Latimer
2519 Cedar Street; Berkeley, CA 94708
(415)848-5189
For women with all degrees of experience. Offers
backpacking classes and wilderness trips throughout
the year, cross-country skiing and snow camping in
winter. The aim is to teach women wilderness skills
and make them aware of themselves as physically
strong people."
Outward Bound, Inc.
384 Field Point Road; Greenwich, CT 06830
(203) 661-0797 (800) 243-8520 (toll free)
An action-oriented program for personal growth, ser-
vice to others, and adventure education. It is design-
ed so that students will meet challenging experiences
in wilderness settings. Outward Bound operates
through seven different schools around the country,
all of which have courses for both women and men,
including women-only courses and a program for the
handicapped.
Palisade School of Mountaineering
P.O. Box 694, Bishop, CA 93514
(714)935-4330
Offers a broad spectrum of mountaineering courses
and guided climbs throughout the year, primarily in
the Sierra Nevada. A basic mountaineering course
for women taught by women, teaching the basic skills
needed to climb safely on rock, snow, and glaciers,
is offered.
Seaworthy Women
2210 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 254,
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(213)397-7728
Instruction for women from beginning through ad-
vanced sailing. Offers cruises, from one day to one
month, to the offshore islands of California as well as
in the Caribbean; combines sea and land explora-
tions.
Sobek Expeditions, Inc.
P.O. Box 761; Angels Camp, CA 95222
(209) 736-2661
Specializes in wilderness explorations around the
world, pioneering some rather exotic river runs and
expeditions, for men and women. They are promoting
all-women expeditions and hope to sponsor a major
first women's descent of a wild river overseas.
Trailhead Ventures
P.O. Box CC; Buena Vista, CO 8121 1
(303) 395-8001
Prime hiking in the Rocky Mountains and the
Southwest. Committed to wilderness preservation, with
an emphasis on responsible hiking and camping
techniques, by which humans leave the smallest
traces of their visits. Offers a basic backpacking
course for women only.
Underway
Gail Stepina, Touch of Nature Environmental Center
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901
(618)457-0348
Courses offered for women only, men only, and
women and men. Backpacking, canoeing, caving,
rock climbing, land navigation, and cross-country ski-
ing in the Ozark Mountains of Illinois, Missouri, and
Arkansas, with special trips to Canada, North
Carolina, Texas, Georgia, Flordia, and Wyoming.
University of the Wilderness
P.O. Box 1687; Evergreen, CO 80439
(303) 674-9724
Offers women's backpacking and runs canoe, ski
touring, and snowshoe trips in various wilderness en-
vironments. Also offers Wilderness Photography
workshops.
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Washington Women Outdoors, Inc.
P.O. Box 301; Garrett Park, MD 20766
(301)942-8677
Trains metropolitan Washington, D.C., women in a
variety of outdoor activities from September to June.
Fall and spring activities include hiking and bicycling
weekends. Winter hosts their most popular program,
cross-country skiing; women can learn how to
prepare themselves and their skis, as well as learn
actual skiing techniques. WWO's most important func-
tion is education through identification with skilled
women instructors and with skill manuals using
women as models and written in nontechnical terms.
White Pine Ski Touring Center
P.O. Box 417; Park City, UT 84060
(801)336-2055
Concerned with educating the cross-country skier. Of-
fers wide range of instruction, from day lessons and
mini tours on the Park City golf course to several days
of touring in the High Uintas. Offers trips for women
only as well as for mixed groups.
Wilderness Learning Institute
Marilyn Mason
2445 Park Avenue South; Minneapolis, MN 55404
(612) 870-1085
The Wilderness Learning Institute is an educational
organization blending the challenge of outdoor ex-
periences with other educational styles. Nature and
rock climbing can be great teachers of the human
experience. In group rock-climbing experiences for
novices, professional mountaineers and
psychotherapists weave together situations for facing
powerlessness and strengths in a safe environment.
Days are filled with climbing; the metaphor of the
rock climbing is used in fireside discussions at night.
Most programs are four days long. There will also be
combination climbing and square-rig sailing on Lake
Superior. For mixed groups and professionals, this
year's format includes a rock-climbing course for
women that focuses on competitiveness, the aspect
of themselves that we so often deny.
Women in the Wilderness, Inc.
Bldg. 201
Fort Mason; San Francisco, CA 94123
(415) 556-0560
Women in the Wilderness is a lot more than just the
organization we've created over the last few years.
Like a live current, the name itself energizes
something in many women; it speaks to the explorer
in us all.
Women in the Wilderness is a process, a vehicle
through which women who share an interest in the
outdoors and our environment can come to know
one another. Like an ecosystem, the network is a
community of diverse groups with a variety of needs
and interrelationships. The ecosystem, achieveing its
stability through and because of its diversity, is the
natural model to foster. Though science still debates
the theory, it makes for a broad kind of common
sense. The wilderness itself is the most elaborate ex-
ample of an ecosystem, able to balance and sustain
a welter of complexity and life within itself indefinitely.
The wilderness is in fact such an exquisite order that
any area left "unmanaged," to its own devices, will
return to wilderness.
We envision the growth of autonomous regional
groups that will be tied together primarily by our
publication. We seek to coordinate efforts nationally
and lend mutual support while remaining a regionally
based group ourselves. Our network is an attempt to
alleviate the problems of top-heavy traditional
organizational structures. And, like people, no
organization is perfect; we're still in the process of
growing, but the network of regional groups fits our
belief in the values of self-sufficiency and self-
definition, with each group inventing its own size,
shape, and focus, based on its own regional mix of
women and environment. There is no set way to
come together. Through sharing in the network via
the publication Women in the Wilderness and finding
out what works for others, people can get their own
ideas about what might fit for them.
In the Bay Area, our program ranges from en-
vironmental forums, skills workshops, earthday
celebrations such as a summer solstice festival,
leadership training workshops, films and slide shows,
panel discussion, climbing, running trails, women's
drumming workshops, and river trips to painting and
photography in the wilderness. It is a wide mix of ac-
tivities, limited only by the interest of members and
the stipulation that all programming must be led by
women, though some events are also open to men.
Women in the Wilderness, Outings, Expeditions and
Adventures, focuses on special courses from trips for
teenagers and school-age children to management
executives. We've put on river trips for mothers and
daughters, day-long walks in the woods, weekend
backpacking, rafting the Grand Canyon, kayaking
Baja, and trekking Nepal. Membership is $10 per
year and includes a subscription to the quarterly
publication. The publication features a directory of
outfitters and organizations; a calendar of activities
(both our own and others) from around the country;
and articles, photographs, and art work on the theme
of women and wilderness. The quarterly also carries
information about job opportunities in the out-of-
doors.
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Women Outdoors
474 Boston Avenue; Medford, MA 02155
(617)628-2525
A regional network of women who want to develop
an integrated, environmentally conscious lifestyle; feel
the need to work with nature rather than against it;
view wilderness activities as a way in which women
can develop power in their own lives; come from all
walks of life and touch nature in many different ways.
New memPers and inquiries are welcome.
Women's Way Ski Seminars
Elissa Sanger
P.O. Box 1 182, Tahoe City, CA 95730
(916) 583-2904
Held throughout the winter in various ski areas in
California, Colorado, and the East. Five days of in-
struction in small classes. Before and after skiing, ses-
sions in relaxation, massage, visualization, and body-
awareness techniques. Cross-country and downhill.
Women only.
Women's Sports Foundation
195 Moulton Street; San Francisco, CA 94123
(415) 563-6266
Encourages and supports the participation of women
in sports activites. Runs clinics and workshops to im-
prove sports skills, techniques, and knowledge for
girls and women. Develops local women's sports
associations. Maintains an information and resource
center on women's sports.
Woodswomen
3716 Fourth Avenue South; Minneapolis, MN 55409
(612) 823-1900
Operates primarily in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and On-
tario, offering guided canoe trips and bike trips for
women of all ages and degrees of experience.
Vegetarian gourmet camp cooking. Winter camping,
skills workshops, and courses on women in the
wilderness.
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INWARD BOUND OFFERS:
SUMMER 1981 ADVENTURES
INWARD BOUND, owned and operated by
two women health professionals, is
an organization which runs wilderness
adventures especially designed for
women over 30 who are novices in camp-
ing, canoeing, hiking, and cross-coun-
try skiing, and who wish either to
learn or brush up on these outdoor
skills in a supportive environment.
Besides learning new outdoor skills,
our emphasis is on maintaining and
promoting our "wellness". We believe
women can be the real force in going
back into the home and sharing with
families and friends, knowledge of
better eating habits,
and health awareness,
being in the outdoors
ity to discover and develop new abili-
ties, skills, and confidences, which
can then be taken back and incorporat-
ed into our daily living and working
environments.
exercise programs,
We also feel that
is an opportun-
During Summer '81, INWARD BOUND
offers the following adventures:
"LIVE FOODS
"DRY IT,
FOR LIVE BODIES"
YOU'LL LIKE IT!"
and
* practical and economical methods
of sprouting and indoor planting
* what is needed for setting up a
system
* active participation in planting
a tray of seeds to take home
* how to economize by home food
dehydration
* menu planning to save you money
and keep you healthy
* time to explore the inside and
outside beauty of the Botanic
Gardens
DATE: June 6, 1981
TIME: 9:30-3:30 PM. Lunch not included
LOCATION: The Chicago Botanic Gardens.
Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, II.
(just east off route 41 on Lake
Cook Road)
FEE: $25.00(trays, dirt & seeds included)
WEEKEND CAMPING AND CANOEING
ADVENTURES IN WISCONSIN
These "Heal thing Weekends" to beauti-
ful Blackhawk Ridge, Wisconsin, are
great get-aways . We go canoeing on
the Wisconsin River, hiking, swimming,
hayriding, and even taking a sauna and
whirlpool if you'd like.
DATES: June 26-28, 1981
July 10-12, 1981
July 24-26, 1981
TIME: 6:30 PM Friday evening to
2:00 PM Sunday
LOCATION: Blackhawk Ridge, Sauk City,
Wisconsin. One hour north of
Madison.
FEE: $139 o 00 includes: all camping fees
in special large tents, canoe rental,
put-in and pick-up at river, fantas-
tic food, swimming pool, sauna,
(travel to and from Blackhawk
Ridge is NOT included)
MINNESOTA BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE TRIP
Portaging and paddling through quiet
lakes in the boundary waters. Get in
touch with the silence, the beauty, the
sounds of the world around you.
7 days-8 nights
(trip is limited to 10 persons)
1981. Depart noon
Return afternoon of
DATES August 1-9,
August lsto
August 8th.
DEPARTURE: Bearskin Outfitters, 35 miles
up the Gunflint Trail, Grand
Marais.
FEE: $379.00 includes total outfitting,
food for 7 days, one overnight at out-
fitters, and one over night at quaint
hotel on shores of Lake Superior in
Grand Marais.
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UTAH GREEN RIVER CANOE TRIP
WYOMING GRAND TETONS BACKPACKING TRIP
Paddling and floating down the calm
waters of the Green River. The river
twists its way for endless miles
through vast canyons that radiate colors
or reds, oranges, yellows and lavendars.
7 days-8 nights
(Limited to 14 people)
DATES: August 15-23, 1981. Arrive
8:00 August 15th„
DEPARTURE: Sunset Motel, Moab, Utah
and Tex's River Expeditions,
Moabo
FEE: $379.00 includes guides, all
equipment, food for 7 days,
two nights lodging at the Sunset
Motel o
Hiking the magnificent skyline trail
in Grand Tetons National Park. We will
be hiking at altitudes above 6800 feet,
so you will need to be in good physical
condition.
7 days-8 nights
(limited to 12 persons)
DATES: August 29-September 6, 1981.
Arrive at hostel August 29th.
DEPARTURE: Teton Village Hostel, at
foot of Rendevous Mountain—
between Jackson Hole and south
entrance of park.
FEE: $319.00 includes guides, two
nights lodging, tram tickets,
food for 7 days, cooking stoves
& fuel.
for further information:
INWARD BOUND ADVENTURES, INC.
1613 W. Greenleaf, Chicago, II. 60626
(312) 274-4964
THE DINNER PARTY IN THE MIDWEST
Midwesterners will be able to experience
Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party close
to home, in May, June and July, at our
exhibit site, 3130 Mayfield Road in
Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
All over the Midwest, people are help-
ing to raise money by becoming sponsors
of The Dinner Party exhibition. Sponsors
help by supporting a particular part
of the exhibit, thereby contributing
the necessary funds to bring The Dinner
Party to Cleveland.
*A gift of $1000.00 will exclusively
sponsor one of the 39 place settings.
* A gift of $300.00 will sponsor
a plate.
* A gift of $150.00 will sponsor a
runner.
* A gift of $25.00 will support a
name from the Heritage Floor.
If you feel The Dinner Party deserves
to be seen and not stored away, sponsor
a part of it and encourage others to do
the same.
OCR
HERITAGE
IS OOR POWER
For more information:
The Ohio-Chicago Art Project
3130 Mayfield Road
Cleveland Hts., OH 44118
(216) 371-2222
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE GATHERING
In the smaM town of Saint Peter, rest-
ing in the valley of the Minnesota River,
Alixa Schultz and her colleagues of the
Cherry Creek Theatre are expecting a
cloudburst of people to arrive on August
9th for THE GATHERING--an assemblage of
theatre groups, scholars, writers and
artists from across the nation
What is the place of performance and
celebration in the building of culture?
These are the questions to be addressed
in the six days of this evento They will
be answered by discussion, lecture,
performance, workshops, concerts, an
Arts Fair, Dawn River Tour, puppets,
masks, kites, banners, dance, poetry,
song.
On the evening of August 9, a pageant-
parade will begin THE GATHERING. The
theme is LET THE BIRD OF EARTH FLY,
after the poem by Meridel LeSueur. The
pageant will start on the river with
handmade rafts and a flotilla of canoes
and culminate in a choral and orches-
tral concert and the performance by
a dance company.
We have been asked to participate and
we intend to be there'
To join a car pool, pack up your tent
and come along, call the Editor.
Housing arrangements include camping
sites, dormitories or motels. Shall
we arrive by river in the flotilla of
canoes? or by bicycle?
For a detailed program write to
Alixa Schultz at the address shown,
left.
Readers will find a report in the
Summer issue of The Creative Woman.
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FROM THE EDITOR'S LOOK-OUT POINT
Putting this issue together has been
almost as much fun as actually going
out there and hiking, climbing, canoe-
ing and rafting. The wealth of invit-
ing materials available has provided
us with a real turn-on, which we hope
our readers will share » As I have
been thinking over the experiences of
my life in remote and un trammeled
places, the ones that stand out or
shine with a special light are the
times and places of perfect solitude:
walks into the forbidden Massachusetts
woods in spring when I was a school
girl, a night spent alone on an island
in Long Island Sound, private retreats
into the mountains of California, Col-
orado, New Mexico, with my tent, sleep-
ing bag, mess gear, a volume of Thoreau,
a notebook. Absolute silence, except
for wind in the trees or birdsong.
Perfect freedom to do exactly as I
wished. A night under the stars watch-
ing the majestic procession of heavenly
bodies across my sky. When I took off
for a few days of glorious solitude, I
was never hungry, thirsty, tired, or
angry; because I ate when I got hungry,
slept when I tired, and there was no
one to have conflicts with. I returned
refreshed and feeling loving toward my
family and friends.
In recent years, these outings have
changed dramatically: I have gone to
far more distant and memorable places
(Greek islands) and into even more wild
and unspoiled mountains (the Adirondacks)
Too often, I have not been able to have
the kind of experience I wanted and long-
ed for — the deep, silent communication
with a place— because such things simply
do not happen in a group. There seem to
be some people for whom the wilderness
experience is a contest of will, strength,
and endurance — to conquer the mountain,
to make the hundred-mile route, to reach
one's physical limits and then to exceed
them, coming back exhausted to the bone.
For some people, physical exercise is
like money or sex: "only too much is
ever enough". For me, this is a per-
version of the wilderness experience.
For me, the ease and rest of nature
are mocked by the macho spirit.
Clearly, there are many uses of the
wild and many different responses to
it, meeting the needs of different
people. As it takes all kinds to
make a world, we each confront the
wild in our own way. Sharing the per-
spectives of the writers of this issue,
I conclude that women (and some men) may
relate in a different way to the wilder-
ness. At the deepest level it is for
us— for some of us— a spiritual journey
because we touch the wisdom of nature
in the same way that we meet the uncon-
scious. We are not adversaries. We
are one.
I'm grateful and glad that I walked
the Samaria Gorge in Crete, with my
partner and best friend, and a little
proud that I could do it. The pace
of that 18 kilometer forced downhill
trek so strained muscle, heart and
bone that it was a full week before
either of us could move without pain.
I'm angry and ashamed that I did not
have the moral strength to fight to
do it more in my own way — to stop and
play in the rapids— in what must be
the freshest and best water in the
world. Looking forward to my next
outdoor adventures, I find that my
challenge is to find out how to have
both: how to combine the delights of
a shared experience of vigorous en-
deavor and the intensity of communion
with those voices of nature that are
both without and within.
Helen E. Hughes, Editor
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INDEX TO VOLUMES III & IV
Index by Author
Applehof, Mary "Worms VS High Technology" P. 23 VOL. IV, NO. 1
Archer, Liz "Little Red Hen" P. 17 VOL. IV, NO. 1
Bear. Roberta "Children's Art: A Map of the Inner World" P. 19 VOL III, NO. 2
"Creative Woman Meets the International Year of the Child" P. 3 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
"Our World's Children" P. 5 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
Beck, Linda "Shadows" P. 36 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Blair, Catherine "Finding the Wild Close To Home" VOL. IV, NO. 4
Brissenden, Barbara "A Wife's Statement" P. 13 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
Brady, Margaret "The Turning Away" (Poem) P. 1 1 VOL. IV, NO. 1
Bray, Peggy Irene "A Woman's Key to Political Liberation" P. 6 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
Crooker, Barbara "Poems" VOL. IV, NO. 4
Eckert, Susan & Cannon, JoAnn "Through the Eyes of Women in the Wilderness" VOL. IV, NO. 4
Ellis, Alis "How Old Are You?" P. 6 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Eron, Leonard D. "Effect of Television Violence on Children" P. 7 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
Everson, David & Judith "Recent Trends in the Electoral Participation of American Women" P. 9 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
Felder, Carol "In Memoriam" P. 4 VOL. IV, NO. 3
Francis, Jenny "Fear of Sailing" P. 7 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
Goldfarb, Pauline "For the Young at Heart" P. 28 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Greenwood, Lois "What is Feminist Research? Some Suggestive Remarks" P. 21 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
Hagens, Bethe "How I Got Into Solar and Why You Can't Get Me Out of My Greenhouse" P. 18 VOL. IV, NO. 1
Hagens, Bethe "Introduction" P. 3 VOL. IV, NO. 1
Hagens, Lucie "Kirby, The Cadillac of Vacuum Cleaners" P. 29 VOL. IV, NO. 1
Hamilton, Nancy "Surviving Technology" P. 12 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"Thinking Ahead" P. 29 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Heiderkrueger, S. J. "Johnny Linny's Nightmare" (a review) by Roberta Rosen P. 29 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
Hinterkopf, Elfie "Focusing: A Method For Achieveing Authentic Roles" P. 27 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
Howard, Louise "Remedies" P. 14 VOL. IV, NO. 1
Huffman, Phyllis "A Time of Change" P. 12 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Hughes, Helen E. "Disappointments in Copenhagen" P. 43 VOL. IV, NO. 2
" Female Sexuality" P. 2 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
"From the Editor's Corner" P. 3 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
"From the Editor's Lookout Point" VOL. IV, NO. 4
"From the Editor's Playground" P. 31 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
"From the Editor's Quarterdeck" P. 29 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
"From the Editor's Viewpoint: Coming Home" P. 23-26 VOL. IV, NO. 3
"Letter From Holland" P. 33 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
"Letter From Holland" P. 40 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"Letter From Holland" P. 40 VOL, IV, NO. 2
Hutton, Barbara "Wife and Mother at Sea" P. 7 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
Kalwa. Jean "Media Watch" P. 4 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"On Chickens and Goats" P. 33 VOL. IV, NO. 1
Kaplan, Mimi 8<. Marcou, Ann "Breast Cancer and Peer Counseling" P. 24 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
Kaplan, Mimi "Sneetches, Ooblecks, Grinches and Gacks" (a review) P. 26 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
Keer, Lou "Stella Pevsner: Popular Writer for Young People" P. 30 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
Kassell, Paula "Playing the Political Game" book reviews reprinted from New Directions for Women P. 27 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
Katz-Levine, Judy "Poems" VOL. IV, NO. 4
Katz. Shirley "Take My Hand" (song) P. 20 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
Kohlsaat, Caroline & Oppenheim, James "Bread and Roses" (song) P. 18 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
LeFevre, Carol "Women Earn a New Identity" P. 1 1 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
Lewis, Joan "Book Review" Women and Nature by Susan Griffin VOL. IV, NO. 4
"The Navy Today" P. 25 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
Lewis, Laurie "Future" P. 18 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
Livingston, Jean "What Children Say About Divorce" P. 16 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
Lundborg, Edith "Ode to Fran Field" P. 25 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Momonova, Tatiana "Preamble" Seven Translations P. 16-17 VOL. IV, NO. 3
Marsh, Bridget "Sailing as a Way of Life" P. 5 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
Martin. Joe Photograph P. 27 VOL. IV, NO. 3
Matteson, David "Changing Men" P. 30 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
Meredith, Joseph C. "Seagoing Wives of Yankee Whalers: A Nineteenth Century Phenomenon" P. 15 VOL. III. NO. 3
Meyers, Joan Rohr Poems: "Moth-Song," "Vistas," "What I might Lose" P. 18 VOL. IV, NO. 3
Millman, Joyce "Poems" P. 7 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Pease-Schwartz, Terri "On the Feminist Study of Motherhood" P. 16 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
Peterson, Lucille "Cherchez La Femme" P. 26 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"H A I K U" P. 26 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Peterson, Lucille, "Small Biography" P. 26 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Prescott, Suzanne "A Tree Farm "Wilderness' " VOL. IV, NO. 4
__ "Coping with Death" P. 31 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Rebeck, Pam 8t Hinterkopf, Elfie "Introduction" P. 1 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
Rebeck, Pam & Rudolph, Bonnie "The High Achieving Woman & Stress" P. 22 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
Riley, Rhoda cover photo VOL. IV, NO. 3
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Rogoff, Mary Lou "Dying, An Integral Stage of the Human Phenomenon: Commentary on Writings of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross"
P. 37 VOL. IV. NO. 2
Saul, Jim "Age of Innocence" cover photo VOL. Ill, NO. 2
Sharp, Marge "From an Idea to a Reality: The Older Women's League" P. 21 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"Stereotyping of the Aged" P. 4 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Shipley, Joan "First Time Skipper" P. 9 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
Shumer, Sara Mayhem "A Feminist Politics of Women in Politics" P. 4 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
Steele, Irene E. Peoms: "Becoming," "Wild Wind," "When You Weary" P. 12 VOL. IV, NO. 3
Stoper, Emily "Women's Studies: Politics of Powerlessness at a University'' P. 24 VOL. III. NO. 1
Strauss, Lynn Thomas "A Marvelous Life" (interview) P. 14 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Life in "The Pea Green Boat" P. 10 VOL. IV. NO 2
"My Grandmother" P. 16 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"Review Essay" (Woods Woman by Anne LaBastille, Women and Wilderness by Anne LaBastille, and Women in the Wilderness by
China Galland) VOL. IV, NO. 4
"Saying Yes to Life - and Death" P. 13 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
"Shikasta" by Doris Lessing (book review) P. 13 VOL. IV, NO. 3
Taylor, Julie Cover photograph VOL. IV. NO. 1
Troy, Shannon (book review) "Life After Youth: Female, Forty — What Next?" by Ruth Harriet Jacobs P. 42 VOL. IV, NO 2
Wasnak, Lynn Poems: "The Love-Bird," "Stone-Eater," "Morning Glory Girls," "Protected Mama" P. 7 VOL. IV, NO. 3
Watson, Pat "River Rafting on the Dolores River" (Adapted from Womankind, VOL. II, Issue XVI, 1980) VOL. IV, NO. 4
Webber, Dawn "Love and Danger" P. 9 VOL. IV, NO. 3
Weiser, Ann "Networking" P. 6 VOL. IV, NO. 1
Whitaker, Sandra V. "Women and Self-Esteem: A Search for a New Identity" P. 7 VOL. III. NO. 4
Index by Title
"A Feminist Politics of Women in Politics" by Sara Mayhew Shumer P. 4 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
"Age of Innocence" cover photo by Jim Saul VOL. Ill, NO. 2
A "Marvelous Life" (interview) by Lynn Thomas Strauss P. 14 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"A Time of Change" by Phyllis Huffman P. 12 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"A Tree Farm 'Wilderness' " by Suzanne Prescott VOL. IV, NO. 4
"A Wife's Statement" by Barbara Brissenden P. 13 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
"A Woman's Key to Political Liberation" by Peggy Irene Bray P. 6 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
Bibliography on Women and Aging P. 8 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"Book Review of Shikasta" by Doris Lessing by Lynn Thomas Strauss P. 13 VOL. IV, NO. 3
"Book Review" Women and Nature by Susan Griffin by Joan Lewis VOL. IV, NO. 4
"Bread and Roses," (song) by Caroline Kohlsaat and James Oppenheim P. 18 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
"Breast Cancer and Peer Counseling" by Mimi Kaplan and Ann Marcou P. 24 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
"Changing Men" by David Matteson P. 30 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
"Children's Art: A Map of the Inner World" by Roberta Bear P. 19 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
"Cherchez La Femme" by Lucille Peterson P. 26 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"Coping with Death" by Suzanne Prescott P. 31 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Cover photograph by Julie Taylor VOL. IV, NO. 1
Cover photograph by Rhoda Riley VOL. IV, NO. 3
Creative Lives: "Competence, Courage and Caring: Mimi Kaplan" P. 19-20 VOL. IV, NO. 3
"Creative Woman Meets the International Year of the Child" by Roberta Bear P. 3 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
"Disappointments in Copenhagen" by Helen E. Hughes P. 43 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"Dying, An Integral Stage of the Human Phenomenon: Commentary on Writings of Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross" by Mary Lou Rogoff
P.37 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"Effect of Television Violence on Children" by Leonard D. Eron P. 7 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
"Fear of Sailing" by Jenny Francis P. 7 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
"Female Sexuality" by Helen E. Hughes P. 2 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
"Finding the Wild Close to Home" by Catherine Blair VOL. IV, NO. 4
"First Time Skipper" by Joan Shipley P. 9 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
"Focusing: A Method for Achieving Authentic Roles" by Elfie Hinterkopf P. 27 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
"For the Young at Heart" by Pauline Goldfarb P. 28 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"From an Idea to a Reality: the Older Women's League" by Marge Sharp P. 21 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"From the Editor's Corner" by Helen E. Hughes P. 3 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
"From the Editor's Playground" by Helen E. Hughes P. 31 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
"From the Editor's Lookout Point" by Helen E. Hughes VOL. IV, NO. 4
"From the Editor's Quarterdeck" by Helen E. Hughes P. 29 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
"From the Editor's Viewpoint: Coming Home" by Helen E. Hughes P. 23 - P. 26 VOL. IV, NO. 3
"Future" by Laurie Lewis P. 18 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
"Gray Panthers: First Decade" P. 18 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"H A I K U" by Lucille Peterson P. 26 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"How I Got into Solar and Why You Can't Get Me Out of My Greenhouse" by Bethe Hagens P. 18 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"How Old Are You?" by Alis Ellis P. 6 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"In Memoriam" by Carol Felder P. 4 VOL. IV, NO. 3
"Introduction" by Bethe Hagens P. 3 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"Introduction" by Pam Rebeck and Elfie Hinterkopf (Guest editors) P. 1 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
"Johnny Linny's Nightmare" by Roberta Rosen (review) by S. J. Heidegrueger P. 29 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
"Kirby, The Cadillac of Vacuum Cleaners" by Lucie Hagens P. 29 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"Letter From Holland" by Helen E. Hughes P. 33 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
"Letter From Holland" by Helen E. Hughes P. 40 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"Letter From Holland" by Helen E. Hughes P. 40 VOL. IV, NO. 2
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"Letter to the Creotive Woman" by Dave Crispin. JoAnne Evansgardner. Natasha Malachovskaya. Glenda Bailey-Mershon
P. 21-22 VOL. IV. NO. 3
"Life After Youth: Female. Forty — What Next? by Ruth Harriet Jacobs" by Shannon Troy (book review) P. 42 VOL. IV, NO. 2
Life in "The Pea Green Boat" by Lynn Thomas Strauss P. 10 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"Little Red Hen" by Liz Archer P. 17 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"Love and Danger" by Dawn Webber P. 9 VOL. IV, NO., 3
"Media Watch" by Jean Kalwa P. 4 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"My Grandmother" by Lynn Thomas Strauss P. 16 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"Networking" by Ann Weiser P. 6 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"Ode to Fran Field" by Edith Lundborg P. 25 VOL. IV, NO. 2
"On Chickens and Goats" by Jean Kalwa P. 33 VOL. IV, NO. 1
"On the Feminist Study of Motherhood" by Terri Pease-Schwartz P. 16 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
"Our World's Children" by Roberta Bear P. 5 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
"Playing the Political Game" by Paula Kassell book reviews reprinted from New Directions for Women P. 27 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
"Poems" by Barbara Crooker VOL. IV, NO. 4
Poems "Moth-Song," "Vista." "What I Might Lose" by Joan Rohr Meyers P. 18 VOL. IV, NO. 3
"Poems" by Joyce Millman P. 7 VOL. IV. NO. 2
"Poems" by Judy Katz-Levine VOL. IV, NO. 4
Poems: "Becoming," "Wild Wind," "When You Weary" by Irene E. Steele VOL. IV, NO. 3
Poems: "The Love-Bird," "Stone-Eaters," "Morning Glory Girls," "Protected Mama" by Lynn Wasnak P. 7 VOL. IV, NO. 3
'Preamble": Seven Translations by Tatiana Mamonova P. 16-17 VOL. IV, NO. 3
'Recent Trends in the Electoral Participation of American Women" by David and Judith Everson P. 9 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
'Remedies" by Louise Howard P. 14 VOL. IV, NO. 1
'Review Essay"(Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille, Women and Wilderness by Anne LaBastille, & Women in the Wilderness by China
Galland) by Lynn Thomas Strauss VOL. IV, NO. 4
'River Rafting on the Dolores River" by Pat Watson (Adapted from Womankind, VOL. II, Issue XVI, 1980) VOL. IV, NO. 4
'Sailing as a Way of Life" by Bridget Marsh P. 5 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
'Saying Yes to Life - and Death" by Lynn Thomas Strauss P. 13 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
'Seagoing Wives of Yankee Whalers: Nineteenth Century Phenomenon" by Joseph C. Meredith P. 15 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
'Shadows" by Linda Beck P. 36 VOL. IV, NO. 2
So Much Has Been Written About Women" Reprint, New Directions for Women P. 26 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
'Small Biography" by Lucille Peterson P. 26 VOL. IV, NO. 2
'Sneetches, Ooblecks, Grinches and Gacks" a review by Mimi Kaplan P. 26 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
'Sterotyping of the Aged" by Marge Sharp P. 4 VOL. IV, NO. 2
'Stella Pevsner: Popular Writer for Young People" by Lou Keer P. 30 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
'Surviving Technology" by Nancy Hamilton P. 12 VOL. IV, NO. 1
'Take My Hand" (song) by Shirley Katz P. 20 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
'The High Achieving Woman & Stress" by Pam Rebeck & Connie Rudolph P. 22 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
'The Navy Today" by Joan Lewis P. 25 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
'The Turning Away" (Poem) by Margaret Brady P. 1 1 VOL. IV, NO. 1
'Thinking Ahead" by Nancy Hamilton P. 29 VOL. IV, NO. 2
'Through the Eyes of Women in the Wilderness" by Susan Eckert & JoAnn Cannon VOL. IV, NO. 4
'What Children Say About Divorce" by Jean Livingston P. 16 VOL. Ill, NO. 2
What is Feminist Research? Some Suggestive Remarks" by Lois Greenwood P. 21 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
'Wife and Mother at Sea" by Barbara Hutton P. 7 VOL. Ill, NO. 3
'Women and Self-esteem: A Search for a New Identity" by Sandra V. Whitaker P. 7 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
'Women Earn a New Identity" by Carol LeFevre P. 1 1 VOL. Ill, NO. 4
'Women's Studies: Politics of Powerlessness at a University" by Emily Stoper P. 24 VOL. Ill, NO. 1
'Worms VS High Technology" by Mary Appelhof P. 23 VOL. IV, NO. 1
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WHAPS HAPPENING
The First International Interdisciplinary Congress
ion Women (theme Women's Worlds) will be held at
the University of Haifa in Israel from 12/28/81 to
0./1/82. The sponsors include: Association for
IWomen in Science; Center for the Study of Sex
[Roles, CUNY; Division of the Psychology of
{Women, APA; Federation of Organizations for
Professional Women; Sociologists for Women in
.Society; The University of Haifa; and Women's
•Caucus of the Population Association of America.
Information about the submission of programs and
arrangements may be obtained from The Secre-
tariat, P.O. Box 3054, Tel-Aviv, Israel (telex
:341132, telephone 03-222217). Deadline for sub-
missions is 4/1/81.
Shcharansky's Wile
Expresses Concern
The Associated Press
TEL AVIV — The wife of Rus-
sian Jewish dissident Anatoly
Shcharansky said Sunday that he
has not been heard from since ear-
ly December, when he spent two
weeks in solitary confinement in a
Soviet prison camp.
Mr. Shcharansky, 33, was sen-
tenced to 13 years in prison in
1978 after he was convicted of
espionage in a trial that was con-
demned by the, West. Avital
Shcharansky said her mother-in-
law told her in a telephone call
from Moscow that Soviet authori-
ties evaded inquiries regarding Mr.
Shcharansky's condition.
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will be co-edited by Donna Bandstra
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on dance, sport, nutrition, massage,
and the healing arts as women have
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